I run the Sound/Visuals for a school hall (student there also) and I'm looking into a solution of professionally cuing videos.
Up until recently we had been using VLC to play videos on the 2nd screen (the projector). Sadly, I've tried searching for settings inside VLC that would allow control on one screen, and video on the other, but to no avail. I've yet to even find a way to get VLC to always start video on a 2nd screen (it starts on the screen the control is on). Having to drag a window across is quite unproffesional and looks quite bad.
I looked around and found that Quicktime had a config to always show fullscreen on the 2nd screen, so I've been using that to cue videos recently. However, it's by no means a solid solution as it lacks the required codecs for some videos (such as wmv) that I often have to play.
So I ask, is there any free software available that could do what I need?
Up until recently we had been using VLC to play videos on the 2nd screen (the projector). Sadly, I've tried searching for settings inside VLC that would allow control on one screen, and video on the other, but to no avail. I've yet to even find a way to get VLC to always start video on a 2nd screen (it starts on the screen the control is on). Having to drag a window across is quite unproffesional and looks quite bad.
I looked around and found that Quicktime had a config to always show fullscreen on the 2nd screen, so I've been using that to cue videos recently. However, it's by no means a solid solution as it lacks the required codecs for some videos (such as wmv) that I often have to play.
So I ask, is there any free software available that could do what I need?